Review: There are countless Bruce Lee documentaries out there, but this one is a bit different from the lot. This particular film documentary focuses on the questions and facts surrounding the death of the super star.

The documentary begins like all other Bruce Lee documentaries, as it starts with footage from the beginning of his early acting career. With close to 10 min. of footage, it is quite interesting for those who have never seen any of this before. After that, it moves on with his arrival in America and the birth of Jeet Kun Do. In that part there are some interesting interviews with people who were Bruce’s students at the time. They also mention, as they were eyewitnesses of the event, the underground fight that Bruce had with a Japanese Karateka.

Then it moves to the beginning of the rising popularity of Bruce Lee in Hong Kong with the release of his first movie, The Big Boss. They also speak about the other later productions such as the filming of Game of death and then the move of Bruce Lee to do his first American production, Enter the Dragon.

So far this documentary is rather ordinary. One thing to mention is the useless dramatization inserted a few times to show us what apparently happened during a specific time in Bruce Lee’s life. The scenes are badly acted and useless in regards to the appreciation of the documentary. In fact, most of these scenes are from the movie Bruce Lee: True Story, a 1976 Hong Kong movie recounting the life-story of Bruce Lee and featuring the famous Bruce Li.

The most interesting part of the documentary is when it finally reaches the main subject, the cause of Bruce’s death. We hear opinions from different doctors such as DR. Langford and DR. Wu on the matter, and they start recounting in detail the first time Bruce collapsed and almost died in a Golden Harvest sound studio in Hong Kong.

After that we are put in the situation of the tragic day, July 20th 1973, when Bruce died. They again use some bad footage from the movie True Story to recount the events of that day. We are also granted with interviews of different doctors and actors who knew Bruce as well as footage of Betty Ting Pei' during an interview with the press. We also witness stock footage of Bruce’s funeral.

The documentary examines people’s belief on the subject as well, which is pretty funny as some of them thought that Bruce had been killed by Triads or that he’s not dead but he’s hiding somewhere waiting for the right moment to come back on the big screen. Or even that he was killed by Japanese ninja. All of them are of course totally untrue, but it’s still very funny to see which kind of rumours had spread on this subject at the time. The documentary also shows us the many Bruce Lee clones that started to appear after his death.

The final part is probably the most interesting, as we have an interview with Brandon Lee before the shooting of The Crow. He talks about his father’s influence, his acting career and his early movie experiences. This time, they also present during the interview a few clips from his actual movies, such as his first movie Legacy of Rage.